Egas Moniz

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E·gas Mo·niz (

-gäs

mô-n

), Antonio de 1874-1955.

Portuguese neurologist. He shared a Nobel Prize (1949) for advances in brain surgery.

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No references found			Historians of psychiatry agree that Egas Moniz never read about Burckhardt's treatment. The ice pick of oblivion: Moniz, Freeman and the development of ... by Getz, Marshall J. / Trames Following the experience of psychiatrist Egas Moniz in Portugal, they had given frontal lobotomies to six patients. 'The lobotomist' by Munoz, Rodrigo A. / Clinical Psychiatry News Turning to medicine, suffice it to say that Antonio Egas Moniz was awarded the prize, in 1949, for performing leucotomies by banging an ice pick through the patient's eye socket, and wrenching it from side to side to sever their frontal lobes. Victor Lewis-Smith column: Nothing noble in this prize by The Mirror (London, England)			efferent pupillary defect efferent vessel effervesce effervescence effervescent effervescent salt Effexor efficacy efficiency effleurage effloresce efflorescence efflorescent effluent effluvium efflux effort syndrome Effort Thrombosis effraction effusion eflornithine eflornithine hydrochloride EFM Efudex EGA Egas Moniz EGD egest egesta egestion EGF egg egg albumin Egg Broker Egg Brokerage egg cluster Egg Crate Egg Harvesting egg membrane Egg Screening egg white Egg-Shaped Heart Eggers bone plate eggplant eggshell calcification Eggshell Skull Rule EGJ eglandulous ego ego analysis ego boundary			EGALA Egale egalitarian egalitarian egalitarianism egalitarianism egalitarians egalitarians egalite Égalité, Philippe Egality Egality EGames EGamingOnline EGAMS Egan Egan Marino Corporation Egan, Patrick Egan, Pierce Egan, William EGAOB EGAP EGAPL EGAPP EGAR EGARA EGARC EGAS Egas Moniz Egas Moniz, António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz, Antonio Caetano de Arbreau Freire Egas Moniz, Antônio Caetano de Arbreau Freire EGAT EGATE EGATIN EGATS EGB Egba Egba Uprising EGBAR EGBB EGBC EGBCS EGBD EGBDF EGBE Egbe Woghiren Educational Foundation EGBEA Egbert Egbert Egbert Liudvigovich Volf Egbert Roscoe Murrow Egbert Volf

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